1958 – Perry Como was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Magic Moments’ the second No.1 in a row for writers Burt Bacharach and Hal David. It stayed at No.1 for eight weeks.
1964 – Three classic British singles were released, The Rolling Stones ‘Not Fade Away’, The Hollies ‘Just One Look’, and Billy J Kramer’s ‘Little Children’.
1965 – The first full day of filming took place for The Beatle’s movie ‘Help! ‘with the group riding bicycles on location near London Airport, England.
1969 – Peter Sarstedt started a four week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Where Do You Go To My Lovely?’ Some say the song was written about the Italian star Sophia Loren, but Peter Sarstedt has stated he wrote the song about a girl he fell madly in love with in Vienna in 1965, who later died in a hotel fire.
1970 – Simon and Garfunkel went to No.1 on the UK chart with ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’. The album went on to stay on the chart for over 300 weeks, returning to the top of the charts on eight separate occasions and spending a total of 41 weeks at No.1.
1977 – The Jam signed to Polydor Records UK for £6,000. They went on to have 18 consecutive Top 40 singles in the UK, from their debut in 1977 to their break-up in December 1982, including four No.1 hits
1978 – The Police appeared in a Wrigley’s Chewing Gum commercial for US TV, the band dyed their hair blonde for the appearance.
1980 – U2 appeared at The Moonlight Club, at The Railway Hotel in London, tickets cost £2.
1995 – At a private party for 1,200 select guests on the closing night of the Frank Sinatra Desert Classic golf tournament, Frank Sinatra sang before a live audience for the very last time. His closing song was ‘The Best is Yet to Come’.
2000 – The engagement ring Sex Pistol Sid Vicious gave to his girlfriend Nancy Spungen went on sale for auction at £1,500. Sid bought the ring from Camden market in 1977. Also on sale was a pair of John Lennon’s jeans for £2,250.
2001 – Robbie Williams was attacked and thrown from the stage during a concert in Stuttgart, Germany after a man got onto the stage and pushed Williams into the security pit. The attacker was arrested and taken to a secure psychiatric clinic.
2002 – Two middle-aged women spent the first of eight nights sleeping in a car outside Bournemouth International Centre to make sure they were first in the queue for when tickets to Cliff Richard’s forthcoming concert went on sale.
2003 – The News Of The World reported that Michael Jackson had undergone scores of painful operations to strip his body of black skin until he appeared white and that surgeons at a Santa Monica clinic eventually refused him any more treatment. An insider told the paper that Jackson had been anaesthetized on a weekly basis to have his skin peeled and bleached.
2004 – Mud singer Les Gray died of a heart attack, whilst fighting throat cancer, aged 57.
